Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand, 1974 March 11 to 26.

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Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand, 1974 March 11 to 26.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82391791

Concerns Hildebrand's years (from 1913) at University of California at Berkeley, his many-faceted involvement in the establishment of Berkeley's reputation as a leading university. Characterizations of many scientists and administrators he dealt with in the numerous committees on which he served as well as during his Deanship of Letters and Science. Chemistry department in the 1930s. Comments on own research, Entropy of Vaporization, and inventions, the hydrogen electrode, Development of the Theory of Solubility; his Faraday Lecture. Appendix about Frederick G. Cottrell.

3 sessions; transcript, 96 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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